Circulatory and Respiratory System Test Review

Hormones, nutrients, oxygen and carbon dioxide are all transported throughout the body by what?

• Nerve impulses
• Spinal Cord
• Muscle tissues
• Blood

Anemia, Hemophilia, Varicose veins and Leukemia are all disorders of what system

• Digestive
• Endocrine
• Lymphatic
• Circulatory/cardiovascular

The muscle that allows breathing to occur

• Bronchi
• Lungs
• Diaphragm
• Biceps

What measures the amount of force that blood places on the walls of blood vessels, particularly large arteries, as it is pumped through the body?

• Heart beats
• Blood pressure
• Hemoglobin
• None of the above

The oxygen carrying protein in blood is called

• Lymph
• Plasma
• Pathogen
• Hemoglobin

Tiny sacs within our lungs that allow oxygen and carbon dioxide to move between the lungs and bloodstream are called?

• Bronchi
• Alveolus or alveoli
• Trachea
• Platelets

This illness is an inflammation of the lungs, especially the alveoli.

• Pneumonia
• Anemia
• Hemophilia
• Bronchitis

A condition that develops when your blood lacks enough healthy red blood cells or hemoglobin; Lack of iron.

• Hemophilia
• Pneumonia
• Tuberculosis
• Anemia

You go to the doctor’s office and they take your blood pressure. What information do the numbers, from the blood pressure reading, tell you?

• How strong your heart is.
• How much force the blood is placing on the walls of blood vessels.
• How much sugar is in your bloodstream.
• Both how much force the blood is placing on the walls of blood vessels and how strong your heart is.

All of the following travel through the bloodstream except?

• Nerve Impulses
• Oxygen
• Carbon Dioxide
• Hormones